Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback on our current set of changes to the Linux/ia64 kernel to support privileged and un-privileged guests running on the Xen/ia64 hypervisor. These are not yet meant for inclusion in the Linux/ia64 tree, but rather for review and suggestions as well as ensuring that we're not heading down an unacceptable path for an eventual merge. If you haven't been paying attention to the status of Xen/ia64, we've made a lot of huge leaps in functionality over the last few months. We've completed integration of the domain0 virtual-physical memory model, which allows us to better leverage the virtual device drivers and infrastructure of Xen. Perhaps most importantly for users, this enables support for the Xen virtual network driver, finally giving us a working network in guest domains! SMP support has also been added for Xen/ia64 as well as paravirtualized guests (VTI guest SMP support coming soon). FPSWA support has been added, cleaning up our last remaining LTP test failures. There are also numerous other fixes and additions as well as a strong effort to cleanup the code base. We're quickly approaching functional parity with Xen/x86. I've split the patches up into two big chunks, changes to existing code and new code. Obviously we'll need finer granularity patch sets when we think about merging these. The first (and smaller) patch is the changes to existing code. These changes probably need the more stringent review. All changes are relative to upstream 2.6.17-rc5. This is a newer code base than we're using in the current xen-ia64-devel tree, so this is for reference only and not meant to necessarily work. Please see: http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg for the current working version. Xen/ia64 developers may also notice that I've removed chunks of code to support the old non-vp memory model in order to make the patches a bit smaller. Please be sure to include the xen-ia64-devel mailing list <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> with any feedback. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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